Jianghu, what is Jianghu?

Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes.

Jianghu, see Jianghu again.

Grievances and hatreds are endless.

The Bamboo Gang is the gang of the rivers and lakes.

The Bamboo Gang was first formed to fight against mountain bandits and bandits, and was formed for the common good.

It's just that the business is getting bigger and bigger, and there are more and more people, going south and north all the year round, dragons and snakes are mixed, and people's hearts are difficult to collect, so there are more and more rules in the bamboo gang.

In the rivers and lakes, every gang has its own rules, and every gang has some people who disobey the gang rules, so there is a torture hall in the gang.

The Bamboo Gang's torture hall is located underground, and a long passage is built with bluestone to lead to the bottom of the lake.

There are seven hidden posts and 36 organs on the passage.

The design of these organs, I heard that it was designed by Nangong Wuzhen, a member of the Nangong family, and without the token of the helper, it is impossible for any master of the rivers and lakes to easily break into it.

And adjacent to the torture hall are rows of prisons, and everyone who is imprisoned in the prison has only one result, and that is death.

The Bamboo Gang is a big gang, a land and water gang that travels south and north and transports goods for others, so the gang rules are more stringent.

Ziwen was locked in the innermost room of the underground prison, which was dark and damp, the air was filled with the musty smell of blood, and the oil-soaked cable tied him tightly.

Chen Jiaguo sat opposite him and looked at him quietly.

Chen Jiaguo was very quiet, he looked at Ziwen carefully, and did not find that Ziwen was better than himself, he couldn't understand why Tang Bai rejected him and chose Ziwen.

Once people compare, they want to be recognized by more people.

But it doesn't matter, as long as he Chen Jiaguo wants to get it, he will definitely get it, and it has been like this for so many years.

Ziwen woke up, he had a headache, and when he opened his eyes, he saw Chen Jiaguo.

Chen Jiaguo's eyes were brighter, brighter than the oil lamp in the prison.

Ziwen didn't see Zhao Min, so he asked, "What about Minmin?"

Chen Jiaguo was obviously surprised, stunned for a moment, looked at Ziwen and said, "Why don't you ask yourself why you're here?"

So Ziwen asked, "Gang Master Chen, then why did you tie me up here?"

Chen Jiaguo patted his forehead and said, "You are smarter than I imagined." ”

Ziwen shook his head and said, "I just didn't expect you to poison the tea." ”

Chen Jiaguo said: "You should think of it, we boatmen who go south and north, the people in the rivers and lakes are actually just a pretense, and the bones are actually more like businessmen; businessmen pursue interests, and they can do whatever it takes for the sake of interests. ”

Ziwen nodded and said, "Gang Master Chen's purpose is to ask Brother Tang to pass on the cultivation method to me?"

Chen Jiaguo said: "Please also ask Brother Ziwen to complete it." ”

Ziwen said: "It doesn't matter if it is fulfilled, my original intention is to spread the method of cultivation and let more people practice." ”

Chen Jiaguo said: "That's the case!"

Ziwen said: "There is no lie. ”

Chen Jiaguo laughed and said 'yes', and then called 'come on' again.

Then, a man came in from outside the cell, carrying a silver platter, and placed the paper, ink, pen and inkstone on it on the small table of the cell.

Chen Jiaguo was prepared because he was very confident.

He personally untied the rope that bound Ziwen and said: "The family and the country have been villains in vain, thinking that Brother Ziwen is as ruthless and unrighteous as those immortals, I hope Brother Ziwen will not blame him." ”

Ziwen moved his hands and feet for a moment and found that his true qi was sealed, but he was not in a hurry, because he was open in his heart, and everything he said was the truth.

Chen Jiaguo personally studied the ink, Ziwen picked up the pen and wrote the words "Awakening Soul Formula" on rice paper and stopped, and asked, "How is Minmin?"

Chen Jiaguo was unhappy in his heart, but he had to say with a smile: "Brother Ziwen, don't worry, brother and sister are very good." ”

Ziwen said: "Bring her over! She is not around, and my heart is always calm." ”

Chen Jiaguo said: "Brother Ziwen doesn't believe it?"

Ziwen smiled: "Someone once gave me a piece of advice, saying that you should never trust the kindness of businessmen at any time. ”

Chen Jiaguo had no choice but to call someone in, whispered a few words, then waved his hand, and after the man left, he looked at Ziwen and said, "Brother Ziwen, let's start! ”

Ziwen shook his head and said: "Since Brother Tang Bai passed on the Fa, I have said: If you teach the Fa to the world, there will be calamity, and I would have put life and death out of the way, but Min Min I can't rest assured, and I still see the upper side and be safe." ”

Zhao Min was brought in quickly, she didn't look any different, she was still plump and beautiful, and her style was infinite.

She glanced at Chen Jiaguo, then turned her head to look at Ziwen, and said with some resentment: "Husband, the concubine is not wrong, this person is a villain." ”

Ziwen shook his head and said, "When did I say you missed it!"

Zhao Min said: "Since you know that you are wrong, why do you insist when the concubine asked you to leave?" After speaking, he sighed and said: "At the beginning, Brother Tang Bai passed on your method of cultivating immortals, and the concubine was happy in her body and mind; Later, when you wanted to teach the law to the world, the concubine was worried about you; at this time, you fell into the hands of the villain, and the concubine was sad physically and mentally; I thought that my husband would be a frank gentleman and fall for a lifetime, but I was afraid that it would be difficult to escape my life." ”

Chen Jiaguo said: "My brother and sister are so worried about me?"

Zhao Min said: "How do you tell me to believe you?"

Chen Jiaguo didn't answer, but looked at Ziwen and said, "Brother Ziwen, you can start now." ”

Ziwen said: "Let Minmin leave." ”

Chen Jiaguo shook his head.

Zhao Min said: "Foolish husband, don't you know, even if you write out the cultivation method silently, this villain will not let my husband and wife leave; After speaking, she sighed and said, "Even if you don't care about your past suspicions, but Gang Master Chen lives the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain, so he will naturally not believe you." ”

Ziwen looked at Chen Jiaguo.

Chen Jiaguo nodded and said: "Compared with the gentleman, the family and the country would rather be a villain, the gentleman suffers more often, and the villain takes advantage more often." Ziwen don't worry, I can let you die without pain. ”

Ziwen apologized: "Minmin, I thought too simply. ”

Zhao Min sighed, walked over, gently hugged Ziwen in his arms, and said with a smile: "You are originally a simple person, what is wrong; you often say that if you have good intentions in your heart, there will be great goodness in the world, but you don't know that the power of a drop of water is too small, when it drops into the desert, it will only be evaporated by the heat of the desert, and it is impossible to turn the desert into an oasis." ”

Ziwen fell silent for a while.

Chen Jiaguo knocked on the table impatiently.

Ziwen sighed, picked up the pen and wrote out the "Awakening Soul Formula" silently.

Chen Jiaguo grabbed the rice paper in his hand, then waved his hand, and someone came again and took Zhao Min out of the prison.

A few days later, Chen Jiaguo came to the prison again with a gloomy face, and said coldly: "Brother Ziwen still doesn't believe in the little brother!"

Ziwen said: "What does Gang Master Chen mean by this?"

Chen Jiaguo threw the rice paper in his hand on Ziwen's face, and shouted angrily: "What kind of bullshit is written, the text is not understandable, you are an idiot or a fool to me Chen Jiaguo, and if you write a bullshit thing casually, it will be regarded as a practice exercise." ”

Ziwen was stunned when he heard this, and said: "Gang Master Chen, the method of cultivating immortals is already mysterious and difficult to understand, and you need to continue to understand the method before you can understand it, why is the helper so eager for quick success?"

Chen Jiaguo's anger disappeared instantly, and he smiled: "It seems that in this way, it is a mistake." After speaking, he waved his hand, and a man in sackcloth came in behind him, untied the rope on Ziwen's body, picked him up and walked out.

Ziwen said: "Gang Master Chen, what do you want?"

Chen Jiaguo turned his head, patted Wang Ziwen's cheek with his hand, and said with a sneer: "This gang leader thinks that anything has value, and what is easy to obtain, the more people doubt its value." After speaking, he sighed, frowned again, and said: "This gang leader has no time, the gang suddenly disappeared once, maybe the next time will be tomorrow, or tonight; ”

Ziwen smiled bitterly: "I didn't lie to you, isn't there no selfless person in this world?"

Chen Jiaguo said: "There exists, there must exist, but the gang leader does not believe it, and the gang leader only believes that when a person's spirit is completely destroyed, everything he says is true; After speaking, he said to the two people who escorted Ziwen: "Why are you stunned, let Ziwen Daxia wake up his mind." ”

The two men in sackcloth picked up Ziwen and walked out.

Ziwen was not afraid, and said, "You let go of me, and I will go with you." ”

The two men in sackcloth didn't seem to hear it, but they just carried him to the right, and after walking a few feet away, Ziwen was taken to a gloomy secret room.

The secret room was full of torture instruments, and under the dim light, all kinds of torture instruments emitted a cold cold light.

The floor and wall tiles of the chamber were dyed a dark red, exuding a thick smell of blood.

The two sackclothed men put Ziwen on the wooden frame, locked his hands and feet with iron cables, and then left without looking back.

A hunchbacked old man walked in.

He was dressed in an old black shirt, with sleeves, trouser corners, and waist tied tightly with ropes, and his white hair parted from the middle to the sides, falling down naturally, and his cheeks were very pale and emaciated, and his eyes were as small as slits, and if he had not woken up, he would even walk tremblingly.

The old man didn't speak, opened an oily roll from the table, picked out a dozen bamboo sticks of different lengths, and then pinched Ziwen's palm, took out a bamboo stick and inserted it into Ziwen's fingernail.

Ten fingers connected to the heart, the pain in the fingertips was like a knife on the heart, Xiao is Ziwen clenched his teeth, and finally couldn't help but struggle and scream.

The hunchbacked old man likes to listen to other people's screams, and at the moment when Ziwen screams, his small eyes are also closed, as if he has tasted peerless wine, the whole person is intoxicated.

The old man was not in a hurry, he had a very deep understanding of people's fears: they knew that people's fears were not at the time of the punishment, nor after the punishment, but before the punishment.

Many times, people's fears are often infinitely magnified by themselves.

People are so strange sometimes.